my 900$ ctberpower plays this game amazing only thing in ur setup i would reccamend is going 16 gig ram rather than 8 could prolly save money on ur graphics card and put it there also upgrade to the other versions they will be better with getting hotter thant he base modles

my 900$ ctberpower plays this game amazing only thing in ur setup i would reccamend is going 16 gig ram rather than 8 could prolly save money on ur graphics card and put it there also upgrade to the other versions they will be better with getting hotter thant he base modles

Hmm, I very much disagree on the RAM vs. graphics cards. 8 gb is MORE than adequate to play XIV, and imo you'll get far more performance increase with a better graphics card as opposed to upgrading your RAM. The reason I say this is that when I went from 4 gb of 1600 to 8gb, my score on the benchmark only jumped about 500 points... but when I went from a Nvidia 2gb to a Radeon of similar models (radeon was 1 step up) my score went almost 2k higher. I can't ever imagine RAM being the bottleneck at 8gb unless you are running a crapton of programs concurrently...

Forgot what the original question was but if it's asking if it will play FFxiv, it will. My suggestion, if you are going to spend that much money you are better off buying the parts separately and build the PC your self. That is a dell-alienware.... you are paying for the name. It's just a suggestion.

Yeah 16 GB is way too much. I ran Diablo 3 & 14 alpha & beta at the same time with 8 GB and browser windows open. Just now, I decided to do a test. I ran Diablo 3, Final Fantasy 7 PC (re-release), Neverwinter, Windows Media Player (playing Jules Chrono Trigger Zeal Cover), and Firefox with 4 tabs at the same time. All three games were running at 1080P and doing this uses 3.42 GB of system memory. So yes, if you're gaming stick with 8 unless 16 GB is free. If you're configuring a PC, you'd be better investing in lower latency memory, or a slightly better video card, or even an SSD.

Edit: Also forgot I was going to link this company based in Nebraska, Xoticpc. They recently started doing desktops as well. You also get NA based customer service if you're not tech savvy. So you don't have deal with outsourced customer service.

My only problem with doing it with other sites is that Dell offers 1 year no interest on that computer, whereas if I do it through my bank, obviously there will be interest on it the full time.. unless someone knows of a good computer building site that offers a deal like that. (Since i don't have the full money to just pay it off right away)